GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on Tuesday organized a rally at UN headquarters in Gaza City in support of Palestine's bid for membership of the world body.

DFLP leader Talal Abu Tharefa said the demonstration was held ahead of the Palestinian Central Committees meeting on Wednesday to discuss practical steps to gain UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state.

Abu Tharefa urged the UN to redeem the dispossession of Palestinians over the last 63 years by recognizing a Palestinian state based on UN resolution 181. The 1947 resolution called for historic Palestine to be split into two independent states.

He also urged Fatah and Hamas to speed up implementation of the reconciliation agreement and to include all Palestinian factions in their discussions.

1 ) JohnWV / USA

26/07/2011 21:24

May the Zionist settlers be evicted and the contiguous and fully autonomous Palestinian State be recognized and thrive on UN imposed actual and PUNITIVE REPARATIONS from Israel.

2 ) Free Palestine / USA

26/07/2011 21:26

Free Palestine, have the state of Palestine become a full member of the UN!

3 ) Wissam / Palestine

27/07/2011 12:44

We must organize MASSIVE rallies in the run up to September's UN vote, have hundreds of thousands peacefully march on the checkpoints, Apartheid Wall and the illegal settlements, to voice our right to self-determination and for correcting the wrongs and injustice of history! I hope civil society starts mobilizing and planning from now. The world needs to recognize Palestine's right to exist on lands occupied in 1967, with nothing less than East Jerusalem as capital and a just practical solution

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